I cherish the idea that these "helpless baby lambs" (since we now number in the millions) will become the death of the false Watchtower shepherds because of the public internet exposure of the old cult. As Rev 24,6 says; the sheep will eat the shepherds!
Half banana
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Return to Jehovah Photo
by naazira inthis picture is in the new publication from this year's convention, titled "return to jehovah".
part 1the lost one i will search for.
personally, the animal looks scared of the shepherd.
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Return to Jehovah Photo
by naazira inthis picture is in the new publication from this year's convention, titled "return to jehovah".
part 1the lost one i will search for.
personally, the animal looks scared of the shepherd.
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Half banana
I find this illustration nauseating! It implies some sort of care for those who have left the organisation...what a joke! When did the GB ever care about people? They are only interested in numbers because numbers means money. To picture those who have fled or been expelled from the org by a pitiful and trembling lamb is preposterous!
Once outside of the force-field of Watchtower influence, people no longer remain stunted sheep but at last can grow up into mature humans , become independent and we hope... enjoy a self determined responsible life...not dumb and helpless lambs!
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Was Jesus a real person?
by Coded Logic inwhy didn't jesus ever write anything?
why are there no letters to jesus?
no painting of jesus from that time?
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Half banana
To my knowledge we have none relevant to the case in point. The Romans ignored him...imagine ignoring a man who could raise the dead!
The Romans knew about christ cults though and found them a nuisance and made reference to them but not to Jesus. Josephus ignored him although later Jesus-Christians doctored his words as if he had mentioned him. The only documentation which would have given testimony would have been first hand contemporary reports...they don't exist.
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Was Jesus a real person?
by Coded Logic inwhy didn't jesus ever write anything?
why are there no letters to jesus?
no painting of jesus from that time?
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Half banana
The literary character of the NT Jesus, his activities, words and associations had been used as the saviour figure from Bronze Age antiquity. To be brief; why was the virgin mother of the Egyptian saviour and god-man also called Meri (Isis Meri) and his step father called Sep (as in Joseph)? Why did this ancient saviour have 12 disciples, walk on water, heal the sick, cure lepers and even raise his friend Lazarus? The answer is because he was the saviour figure in a folk tale at least two thousand years BC. Why did Jesus walk on water? Because he walked on water as the morning Sun does rising over the sea, the saviour figure was a Sun god and the son of a Sun god, born at the end of mid-winter solstice and ascending to heaven each year at the spring equinox and dying again on the shortest day. Why were oxen in the stall where the saviour was born and why are all god-men saviours born of a virgin? Because they are references to ancient astrology (Taurus the bull and The Virgin) which system of belief preceded Catholic Christianity and remains the normative structural myth beneath most religious thought on this planet.
The truth does not need defending, it can stand on its own feet. However to promote a big lie, enormous amounts of propaganda and money is required just like the Roman Church had. They had the power and political will to promote the Jesus story and they had the information control to exclude the pagan origins of the Christ figure...and they did so very successfully.
Was Jesus a real person?...Since when have fictional characters from pagan stories started to come off the page and become real people?
(haven't listened to Carrier yet)
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What on earth have the JW org got to offer?
by Half banana inwhat on earth have jw org got to offer?.
one hundred and thirty six years this july of the worlds most published and least read magazine: the inglorious watchtower.
nothing in it which is original has been of any use to mankind.
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Fusion, thank you for your reply and suggestions but really... are these notions worth wasting your life on? Other religions teach these things also. How could any of them be offered as an enticement to commit your life to the JW religion? For example; “Join us as we have no complex rapture doctrine except for the governing body”. It is a complete irrelevance! They have nothing to offer which is realisable and never did have. The trinity no longer gets people's juices going and never will again.
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What on earth have the JW org got to offer?
by Half banana inwhat on earth have jw org got to offer?.
one hundred and thirty six years this july of the worlds most published and least read magazine: the inglorious watchtower.
nothing in it which is original has been of any use to mankind.
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Half banana
Sorry to disappoint friend but you’ll have to return those diplomas to fairy-land, they just don’t cut the mustard in the real world.
The CV for a youngish male JW about to get married:
Education: Read the Watchtower and Awake magazines cover to cover for fifteen years.
Work experience: Part-time window cleaner
Job prospect: !!!
income prospect: !!!
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What on earth have the JW org got to offer?
by Half banana inwhat on earth have jw org got to offer?.
one hundred and thirty six years this july of the worlds most published and least read magazine: the inglorious watchtower.
nothing in it which is original has been of any use to mankind.
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Half banana
So edible insects and java beans will get you everlasting life?!
Why do people still listen to JWs and even join the org when there is now no difference between them and any other Christian doomsday cult?
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What on earth have the JW org got to offer?
by Half banana inwhat on earth have jw org got to offer?.
one hundred and thirty six years this july of the worlds most published and least read magazine: the inglorious watchtower.
nothing in it which is original has been of any use to mankind.
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What on earth have JW org got to offer?
One hundred and thirty six years this July of the World’s most published and least read magazine: the inglorious Watchtower. Nothing in it which is original has been of any use to mankind. It is never quoted from by any academic source apart from exposing its stupidity or justifiable complaints of the magazine misquoting their researches.
This magazine is worse than useless it is harmful. It has only ever misled people, it has never educated, only indoctrinated... and worse yet is that the writers don’t even understand the difference!
Here’s my point... not ever having got anything right in its whole history; what credentials can they offer to the public that they alone should be believed?
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Looking for ideas.
by Driving Force ini received an email from one of the elder in the local congregation.
i am not dfed so there is not a problem there, i am just an aggressive fader.. one of the last things i said to this elder before i stopped all activities was that i do not agree with the borg taking all the assets from the congregations.. here is what the elder said in the email:.
"i recently saw something while looking through the jw broadcasting for the month of may and i though about you.
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You could say that if Big J was really supporting the org, then the GB wouldn't have to go begging for money...but only if you wanted to make a quick exit by being d/fed! -
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How much sediment would have been moved in Noah's flood?
by Zoos ini flew over this crate yesterday on my return home from las vegas.. .
they say this crater was created by an asteroid about 50,000 years ago.
then about 6000 years ago, presumably, god wiped out all life on earth with a global flood.. how much sediment would have been moved around during that flood.
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Half banana
This is a fact: there was no global flood in the last ten thousand years. The basis for this statement is because there is no evidence for a global flood, none whatever. There is evidence for climate change which as I said earlier gave rise to flood myths but the story of Noah is a fable.
There is extremely good evidence that there was NOT a global flood.The last ten thousand years of geological studies during this Holocene period is very well known by earth scientists and has so much data that we can be completely confident that there was no Biblical flood. As Kaik mentions there are no breaks in the also well recorded archaeological data. The Egyptian records run continuously through the period the Bible reports there was a global flood. How much more evidence does a person need? If you believe in the Biblical flood you are a naive and superstitious person.
As ex-JWs we must get used to the fact that the Bible is a book of folk myth, it is not inspired, it is not the word of any god.